Mourning-band for hats.



No. 663,957. Patented Dec. I8, I900.

E. A. BURT & H. HARRIS.

/ MOURNINB BAND FUR HATS.

.(Application filed 0:20, 1900.)

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NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ELI -A. BURT AND HERMEN HARRIS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y;

MOURNlNG- BAND FOR HATS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 663,957, dated December 18, 1906.

Application filed October 20, 1900. Serial No. 33,760. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ELI A. BURT, of New York, (Brooklyn,) in the county of Kings, and

HERMEN HARRIS, of New York city, in the county of New York, State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mourning-Bands for Hats; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

Our invention relates to an improved mourning-band for bats, and more particularly to improved means for securing the ends of the band together, the object of the invention being to provide a band with improved means whereby the ends thereof can be removably secured together without the use of glue or other adhesive material and which will give to the band the appearance of a neat seam.

With this object in view the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts, as will be more fully hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view illustrating our improvements. Fig. 2 is a view in section, and Fig. 3 is a detached View, of the clamping mechanism.

1 represents a mourning hat-band provided at its respective ends with our improved socuring means, which consists of two members 2 and 3, the former of which comprises a metal strip or plate bent longitudinally about midway its ends, as shown at 4, and the outer end of the bent strip again bent longitudinally upon itself, as shown at 5, and clamped onto one end of the band 1. The other member 3 comprises a strip of metal bent longitudinally upon itself and incloses and is clamped to the other end of the band 1. The

member 3 is adapted to be inserted between the outwardly-projecting bent portion 5 of member 2 and the band 1, thus securing the ends of the band together and giving the j uncture of the ends thereof the appearance of a neat seam.

It will be seen that by employing our improved securing means the use of glue or other adhesive material is entirely dispensed with and also that the band can be readily removed from the hat by simply withdrawing the member 3 from the member 2.

Various slight changes might be resorted to in the general form and arrangement of the several parts described without departing from the spirit and scope of our invention, and hence we would have it understood that we do not wish to limit ourselves to the precise details set forth, but consider ourselves at liberty to make such slight changes and alterations as fairly fall within the spirit and scope of our invention.

Having fully described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- A fastening device for the free ends of a hatband comprising a metal strip bent upon itself and clamped to and overlapping both faces of one end of the band, and a second metal strip bent upon itself and clamped at its outer side only to the other end of the band and adapted to receive the other metal strip between the outwardly-projecting portion of the same and the band.

In testimony whereof we have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ELI A. BURT. HERMEN HARRIS.

Witnesses:

ARTHUR W. PERRIN, JOSEPH E. LAMBERT.

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